Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on April 15th, 2008 at 8PM ET when I spoke with Jeff Gere on Thinking Big with Radio and TV on the Art of Storytelling with Children podcast.

A BLUEPRINT: I offer a blueprint based on my evolution here in Hawaii mapping a progression from a teller to a story producer of a Festival, a radio, and TV series. I believe it is vital for us to moving storytelling into the blood stream of the mainstream.

MY OPINION: Storytelling is like folk music before Peter Paul & Mary. Its self-image loves small and intimate, is largely adverse and suspicious of media and documentation while the REST of the Web Entertainment World explodes bland content in an ever-growing variety of methods and technologies. Content is King, storytelling is a DEEP WELL of PROFOUND CONTENT, but it/we are NOT reaching the fast-food masses. Our self-image does not serve us. I believe there’s a need for Storytelling. We have an opportunity: We who drink in this well ARE the ones to bridge this gap, get OVER our techno-phobia, and feed this rich story mana to the Masses. OK, you say, but HOW?

“The First impediment is self-imposed” Helen Keller.

A FLOOD BEGINS WITH A DROP: (you): Start with YOURSELF. Do your homework, find your Voice & polish coal into a jewel with your tongue. Tell tell tell tell and tell: THEN get biz card, resume, and website. Start small and Continue Reading »

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Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on 2/19/2008 with Syd Lieberman as he speaks about telling your family’s stories.
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Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on 1/07/2008 with Baba the Storyteller who spoke with me about podcasting as a storyteller.

Baba and I speak about the podcasting revolution. Comments or feed back welcome here on the blog post. Do you think I should have Baba back? Is podcasting to narrow a subject? Are we off topic fro the art of storytelling with children? Will we ever stop talking off topic of podcasting during this episode? All this and so much more on two tellers talking – the podcasting special. Continue Reading »

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Seeking: Storytellers, storytelling lovers and storytelling organizers to help break out podcast into main stage presence bringing storytelling movement along with it.

By having a high number of content rich reviews we seek to attract the attention of the iTunes staff and get this podcast featured in iTunes main directory boosting our downloads from 2000 a month up to between 10,000 to 20,000 downloads a month.

Qualifications: Must be comfortable using iTunes or paying a Continue Reading »

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Press Play to hear this interview that was recorded as a conference call on 9/11/2007, Mary Margaret O’Connor, Owner of Itales.com. - Digital Storytelling using emerging technologies with your storytelling.

Mary Margaret O’Connor, has an amazing concept hear that is on the cutting edge of digital storytelling. Are conversation on how to use the online and digital experience to support storytelling is eye opening for any storyteller to see the potential for the storytelling art form in the 21st centaury.

Eric Wolf

——–Mary writes…
iTales.com started as a simple enough idea…create a website to house bedtime stories I tell to my children. But what started as a simple project based on a love of storytelling, evolved into a much better and more complex idea, still based on a love of storytelling! That idea became iTales, a website that allows storytellers to upload and sell individual stories. Over time, iTales will be home to thousands of fantastic mp3 audio stories from around the world and will be a method of Continue Reading »

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Interview with Carol Birch recorded on Tuesday, July 10rd, 2007.

“More opportunities equal more responsibilities” is a simple explanation of copyright. As a librarian, I can read or tell stories to children in the library or as part of a school visit. Fair use also permits me to tell stories in classrooms where I teach graduate students. Responsibilities change when I’m hired as a storyteller, then acting ethically means seeking permission. However, Catch 22’s abound.

Clearing performance rights is the first thing to do, when seriously considering a story penned by another. Unfortunately, the first thing publishers and agents ask for are the date(s) and time(s) a story is to be performed. And who knows?

For more information on this topic, listen to the podcast and read an article that will be published in UP FOR DISCUSSION in School Library Journal, August, 2007. We’ve got to work together to establish some precedents to which we can all refer when we contact publishers.

Carol Birch

Eric Wolf - “the documentary mentioned in the Podcast is called by Seinfiled and called Comedian”

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